Peleg Wadsworth

Peleg Wadsworth (6 May 1748-12 November 1829) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MA 4) from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1795 (succeeding Theodore Sedgwick and preceding Dwight Foster), from MA-13 from 1795 to 1803 (preceding Ebenezer Seaver), and from MA-15 from 1803 to 1807 (preceding Daniel Ilsley).

Biography
Peleg Wadsworth was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts in 1748, and he became a Brigadier-General of the militia in 1777 and distinguished himself during the failed 1779 Penobscot Expedition during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he settled in Maine, and he served as a presidential elector in 1792 and as a member of the US House of Representatives from 1793 to 1807. He died in 1829; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was his grandson.